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By the 1950s the house was in poor repair, and in 1959 it was bought, along with 9 acres (3.6 ha), by a Mr E. Gladstone, who restored the house and opened it as a hotel in 1963. The house was again in disrepair in the 1980s. In the 1990s the stables and service block courtyard of the house were
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